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brewers, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 300_l._ Mark Morrell and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer, 20_l._ and costs. Robert Jones and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 125_l._ Robert Stroad, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 200_l._ and costs. William Cobbett, brewer, mixing strong and table beer, 100_l._ and costs. Thomas Richard Withers, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 75_l._ and costs. John Cowel, brewer, for mixing table beer with strong, 50_l._ and costs. John Mitchell, brewer, for mixing table beer with strong, absconded. George Lloyd and another, brewers, for mixing table beer with strong, 25_l._ and costs. James Edmunds and another, brewers, for mixing table beer with strong, for a long period, verdict 600_l._ John Hoffman, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, and using molasses, 130_l._ and costs. Samuel Langworth, brewer, for mixing strong with stale table beer, 10_l._ and costs. Hannah Spencer, brewer, for mixing strong with stale table beer, verdict 150_l._ Joseph Smith and others, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer. Philip George, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 200_l._ Joshua Row, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 400_l._ John Drew, jun. and another, for mixing strong beer with table, 50_l._ and costs. John Cape, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 250_l._ and costs. John Williams and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 200_l._ OLD, OR ENTIRE; AND NEW, OR MILD BEER. It is necessary to state, that every publican has two sorts of beer sent to him from the brewer; the one is called _mild_, which is beer sent out fresh as it is brewed; the other is called _old_; that is, such as is brewed on purpose for keeping, and which has been kept in store a twelve-month or eighteen months. The origin of the beer called _entire_, is thus related by the editor of the Picture of London: "Before the year 1730, the malt liquors in general used in London were ale, beer, and two-penny; and it was customary to call for a pint, or tankard, of half-and-half, _i.e._ half of ale and half of beer, half of ale and half of two-penny. In course of time it also became the practice to call for a pint or tankard of _three-threads_, meaning a third of ale, beer, and two-penny; and thus the publican had the trouble to go to three casks, and turn
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